Thursday, August 7, 2008

The 15th Corps Sector







Marker Text:

July 20, 1864. Posted on this ridge, astride the Georgia Rail Road was the right flank of Hood's old Corps, (CS) General B.F. Cheatham commanding.
July 22. These troops were withdrawn, before daylight, to the city fortifications. The vacated line was occupied by Logan's corps, (US) which was reversed to face westward.
General Morgan L. Smith's division centered at the railroad; Lightburn's brigade posted (between DeGress Avenue and Battery Place) west of the Hurt House; Martin's, S. of it- the Railroad cut separating them.
The Confederate assault, afternoon July 22nd, between the lines of Lightburn's and Martin's brigades at the Decatur Road and the Railroad cut.


060-95 Georgia Historical Commission erected 1956

Located on DeKalb Avenue near DeGress Avenue
GPS
Visited: July 1, 2008

These are the troops that move forward one morning to fill the vacated Confederate defense lines and are subsequently attacked that afternoon by the same Confederates, albeit in the culvert of the railroad line, not towards the entrenchments.
Something still doesn't make much sense about this movement by the Confederates. The only thing that sticks is that possibly the Confederates were trying to get the Federals into new lines that they were not yet comfortable with, a feigning move if you will.

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